control de la competencia y de los depredadores

English translation: control of competing plants and pests

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Spanish term or phrase:control de la competencia y de los depredadores
English translation:control of competing plants and pests
Entered by: Rachel Fell

12:55 Jun 3, 2005
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Botany / edible uncultivated food & gender relations
Spanish term or phrase: control de la competencia y de los depredadores
y las plantas cultivadas, que implican la sustracción y el traslado de plantas a solares y/o milpas para su observación y cuidados especiales (propagación, protección a través de podas, control de la competencia y de los depredadores, fertilización, riego y selección de las estructuras más apropiadas).

Gracias
Luis Rey Ballesteros (Luiroi)
Local time: 06:19
control of competing plants and pests
Explanation:
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Note added at 57 mins (2005-06-03 13:52:19 GMT)
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Personally I feel \"predators\" sounds right only for moving/animated prey, not static, like plants, despite Rebecca\'s sound links!; though maybe seed predators sounds OK-?
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Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:19
Grading comment
Wow... The answers (particularly those of Rebecca and Rachel) were magnificent and, therefore, very, very helpful!!! Thanks everyone!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +3control of competing plants and pests
Rachel Fell
4 +1competition control and protection from predators
Rebecca Hendry
5control of competition and predators
Dennis Wright
5plant competition and preditor control
paula arturo


  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
competition control and protection from predators


Explanation:
Moyes - World Class Hang Gliders
It came with a competition control frame (special downtubes and carbon fibre ...
1144 Botany Road, Botany NSW 2019 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 (0)2 9316-4644 Fax: +61 ...
www.moyes.com.au/articledetail. asp?ID=175&Cat=Technical - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

[PDF] KENNETH W. MCLEOD
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Elevation, competition control, and species affect bottomland forest ... Botany,
American Midland Naturalist, Biotropica, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical ...
www.uga.edu/srel/ESSite/KMCV01.pdf - Similar pages

Juniperus virginiana L
... for variations in germinative capacity of the seeds and degree of competition
control. ... Economic Botany 41(l):48-54. Adams, RP, and BL Turner. 1970. ...
www.na.fs.fed.us/spfo/pubs/silvics_manual/ Volume_1/juniperus/virginiana.htm - 52k - Cached - Similar pages

ECSONG: Bibliography
More about competition control. #11, May. 1969. ... Cdn.J.Botany
59(11):2189-2325 (1981). Arno, J. Walnut, the cabinetwood par-excellence. ...
ecsong.ca/bibliography.html - 34k - Cached - Similar pages

Botanical Society of America
American Journal of Botany abstracts and links to the associated articles on ...
seeds with protection from predators within the eastern deciduous forests. ...
www.botany.org/ajb/00029122_di001987.html - 39k - Cached - Similar pages

The National Council for the Conservation of Plants and Gardens
Return to basic botany index. Leaves vary considerably in form and structure ...
to control water intake, water storage and/or protection from predators. ...
www.nccpg.com/Page.Aspx?Page=115 - 10k - Cached - Similar pages



Rebecca Hendry
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 4

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Daniel Burns (X)
1 hr
  -> Thanks Daniel.
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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
control of competition and predators


Explanation:
competition between competing species presumably

Dennis Wright
Local time: 12:19
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
control of competing plants and pests


Explanation:
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Note added at 57 mins (2005-06-03 13:52:19 GMT)
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Personally I feel \"predators\" sounds right only for moving/animated prey, not static, like plants, despite Rebecca\'s sound links!; though maybe seed predators sounds OK-?

Rachel Fell
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:19
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 52
Grading comment
Wow... The answers (particularly those of Rebecca and Rachel) were magnificent and, therefore, very, very helpful!!! Thanks everyone!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  John Speese: Even though it says depredadores rather than, maybe, plagas, I would agree that pests is a better translation when talking about plants.
44 mins
  -> Thanks John - was just formulating my note re this!

agree  Muriel Vasconcellos
3 hrs
  -> Thank you, Muriel

agree  x-Translator (X)
16 hrs
  -> Thank you, Stella
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
plant competition and preditor control


Explanation:
http://www.eeb.uconn.edu/Courses/Bio108/Lab Manual Sp '...
http://www.canids.org/1990CAP/11pcontrl.htm

Best of luck!

paula arturo
United States
Local time: 08:19
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in SpanishSpanish
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